Netscape Certificate Management System 6.1, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 13
Automated Jobs
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) provides a customizable Job
Scheduler component that supports various mechanisms for scheduling
cron
jobs.
This chapter explains how to configure CMS to use specific job plug-in modules for
accomplishing jobs.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• About Automated Jobs
• Setting Up the Job Scheduler
• Setting Up Specific Jobs
• Customizing Notification Messages
• Managing Job Plug-ins
About Automated Jobs
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) includes a component called Job
Scheduler that can execute specific jobs at specified times. The job scheduler
functions similar to a traditional Unix
cron
daemon in that it takes registered
cron
jobs and executes them at a preconfigured date and time. If configured, the
scheduler checks at specified intervals for jobs waiting to be executed; if the
specified execution time has arrived, the scheduler initiates the job automatically.
Jobs are implemented as Java classes, which are then registered with CMS as
plug-in modules. You can use a given implementation of a job module and
configure multiple instances of it. Each instance must have a unique name (an
alphanumeric string with no spaces) and can contain different input parameter
values to apply to different jobs. You can also create custom job modules using the
CMS SDK.